Author Archives : Emily Lunardo

An unfortunate fact of life is that no one stays young forever. With increased age comes weak muscles, brittle bones, and slower cognitive functioning. Neuronal connections in our brains affecting thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering all are affected with age, and while not useless, they definitely decline. However, a team of researchers at the Stanford ...click here to read more

Reaching your 100th birthday is not something most people think about, as the average life expectancy is about 79 years for Americans, yet there are individuals out there who live way past that. It is estimated that just one per 5,000 people in developed nations are centenarians (people older than 100), and a study conducted ...click here to read more

Preventing disease is something all humans want to do, and for the most part, eating a healthy diet and getting plenty of exercise seems to be the best way to achieve this. But unfortunately, this is not something everyone is capable of doing. Luckily, a new study suggests that there may be a simpler way ...click here to read more

With food becoming streamlined and faster to consume, it’s common to find food blended into smoothie form, claiming it “releases all the nutrients.” Well, that may be true—in a recent study, researchers found that mastication, otherwise known as chewing your food, may actually help you more than you think. They found that the act of ...click here to read more

Brachioradialis pain occurs when the muscles in the forearm are overexerted. The brachioradialis is a muscle that serves to provide flexion at the elbow as well as support the extension of the wrist, and it spans the length of the forearm from just above outside of the elbow to the thumb side of the wrist. ...click here to read more

Many people would benefit from knowing how to increase their hemoglobin level, and doing this naturally would be an added bonus. Hemoglobin is an iron-rich protein and a component of our blood that is required for the processing of oxygen transfer from the lungs and its delivery to the tissues and organs in the body. ...click here to read more

If I were to ask you what you think the biggest contributor to preventable life-years lost in America is, you would probably say tobacco—it causes more than 480,000 deaths annually, with life expectancy for smokers being at least 10 years less than non-smokers. However, the number one spot goes to obesity, which results in 47 ...click here to read more

Anyone who has enjoyed hot summer days and warm summer nights knows all too well that warm weather brings with it an increase of bugs. And there is no insect we detest more than the mosquito. In fact, this tiny insect is considered one of the deadliest animals in the world, not for its fearsome ...click here to read more